October 14, 1990
12:00 AM (EDT)

News Release Number: STScI-1990-12

October 14, 1990: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has successfully completed the first
stage of a cosmic detective hunt for a rare star, called a nova, which erupted half
a century ago. HST's needle-in-the-haystack search has provided astronomers
with an unprecedented view of the crowded inner region of a globular star cluster
located about 70,000 light-years away.